US2588287A - Impulse metering device - Google Patents

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US2588287A
US2588287A US167474A US16747450A US2588287A US 2588287 A US2588287 A US 2588287A US 167474 A US167474 A US 167474A US 16747450 A US16747450 A US 16747450A US 2588287 A US2588287 A US 2588287A
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  • the present invention relates to a device for counting electric impulses and for measuring the duration thereof, and employs a cathode ray tube which is provided with several terminal anodes and associated with means for locking the electron beam on the terminal anodes.
  • the present invention removes or reduces said drawbacks of heretofore known systems.
  • One object of the present invention is to provide stabilizing circuits for locking the electron beam on an anode to which it has been deflected by an impulse. This object is principally achieved by connecting the anodes to potentiometers placed between the cathode and grid of a single control tube the anode circuit of which. provides the locking voltage for the deflected beam, and by equalizing the time constants of the stabilizing circuits.
  • Another object of the invention is the arrangement of a return path for the electron beam from the last sweep anode to the first neutral anode, which is principally achievedby connecting the output of the last sweep anode, through a resister, to the output of the neutral anode; by providing means associated with said resistor for lateral deflection of the beam, and by providing a suitable time ratio between the longitudinal and lateral deflection of the beam.
  • sweep anode indicates the anode from, which latter the beam is returned to the neutral anode which indicates the anode struck by the cathode beam before arrival of the first counted or metered. impulse.
  • A. further object of. the invention is the. arrangement of anodes which may-conveniently overlap. and be inclined to: the axis of. the anode assembly and. the provisionof a lateralsweep elongation associated with the last sweep anode and leading to the neutral anode.
  • Still another object of the invention is theprovision of means forimpulse counting comprising a differentiating rectifier, and adjustment of the duration of the impulses in accordance with the time constants of the stabilizing circuits.
  • Still a further object of the invention is cyclical shifting of the electron beam over the terminal anodes for the purpose of measuring the duration of impulses.
  • the present invention is distinguished from known systems particularly by the stabilizing circuits for locking the electron beam on an anode, and comprising stabilizing potentiometers connected between the anode and grid of a single control tube; by equalizing the time constants of the stabilizing circuits; and by providing anodes the last of which is associated with a lateral sweep elongation.
  • the main advantages of the invention are: simplification of the stabilizing circuits; the possibility of counting very short impulses following in quick and even irregular succession; and the possibility of accurate measurement of very short time intervals.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic circuit diagram of a preferred embodiment of the invention.
  • Fig. 2 illustrates schematically a preferred embodiment of the anodes of said invention.
  • the numeral I3 indicates a cathode ray tube provided with meansfor producing, controlling, accelerating. and concentrating an electron beam, said beams being connected in a known manner to a direct current source through potentiometer 2', 272 and connecting points 44, 45.
  • the positive pole-of the source is grounded through resistors 2E, 24.
  • the cathode ray tube is also provided with means for electrostatic deflection of the electron beam comprising two pairs of deflection plates I3I, I32 and I33, I34 for vertical and horizontal deflection, respectively. Pair I3I, I32 deflects the electron beam so that it successively strikes anodes 0 through it due to the effect of impulses as will be shown below.
  • Pair I33, I34 deflects the electron beam laterally withregard to thexanode assembly as soon. as the beam strikes the. last-sweep anode IIl.
  • Potential U1 of plate I3I is tapped off potentiometer "I,
  • the stabilizing circuits for locking the electron beam on the anode to which it has been deflected by the signal, and which it struck by the end of the signal comprise, on the one hand, control tube I4 with anode resistor 23, stabilizing potentiometers connected between the cathode and grid of tube I4 and connections to deflecting plates I3I, I32; on the other hand, circuits closed by the electron beam and incorporating the anode, the output circuit thereof, i. e. the connection to the stabilizing potentiometer, resistors 26 and 2', also the cathode of tube I3 and the electron beam.
  • control tube I4 with anode resistor 23 stabilizing potentiometers connected between the cathode and grid of tube I4 and connections to deflecting plates I3I, I32
  • circuits closed by the electron beam and incorporating the anode, the output circuit thereof i. e. the connection to the stabilizing potentiometer, resistors 26 and 2', also the cathode of
  • 1 ohmic resistors have been drawn by way of example of the embodiment of the impedances of the stabilizing potentiometers.
  • the neutral anode B is connected by means of a lead-out from tube I3 to a tapping between resistors III and 02 of stabilizing potentiometer G2, 24 connected between the cathode and "grid of tube I4.
  • anode I is connected to a tapping between resistors II and 12 0f potentiometer II, I2, 24, anode 9 is connected to atapping between resistors 3i and 92 of potentiometer SI, 92, 24, and the last sweep 'anode I0 is connected through resistor 29 to the jlead-out from neutral anode B.
  • the stabilizing potentiometers to which anodes 2 through 8 are connected have not been shown in the drawing.
  • Resistor 24 is common to all the stabilizing potentiometers.
  • Resistor 29 is provided with tappings leading to plates I33, I34 which deflect the electron beam laterally with respect to the anodes.
  • Resistor 29 is provided with further tappings leading through capacitors 34, 35 to terminals 41, 48 which supply divisional impulses to the counting circuits when the electron beam strikes anode II), as will be explained below.
  • Terminal 43 to which the counted or metered impulses are fed is connected, on the one hand,
  • capacitor 33 can be shunted by switch 53 during measurement of the duration of impulses. When counting impulses, switch 53 is open, and diode I5 together with capacitor 33 and resistors 24, 25 operates as a differentiating rectifier, as will be explained I hereinafter.
  • Anodes 3 through 8 which have not been shown in the drawing are the same as anodes I, 2, 9. All terminal anodes are conductive, insulated against each other and partially overlapping. They are connected to lead-out wires passing vacuum-tightly through the widened bottom of the cathode ray tube.
  • anode assembly may, for example, be in a plane with their common axis, not overlapping, or, if overlapping, provided with oblique or bent extensions protruding underneath the adjacent anode.
  • the number of anodes shown in the described embodiment is convenient when counting is carried out in the decade system. For other purposes, however, a diiierent number of anodes might be more convenient. Reduction of the effective number of anodes can be obtained by connecting resistor 29 to the lead-out from another anode, in addition to being conected to anode II], and by tapping off connections to plates I 33, I34 from resistor 29 connected in said way. In this manner, the device is adapted for dividing the number of impulses by a number correin the beam divides into two branches: one portion flows through resistor 02, the second portion flows through resistor BI and the parallel connected other nine branches of the stabilizing potentiometers.
  • resistor FBI is much higher than the value of resistor 02, so that only a small portion of the current contained in the beam flows through resistor III, the grid potential of tube I4 is slightly negative, its anode current and the voltage drop across resistor 23 is considerable, and thus the --potentia1 of plate I32 is more negative than the potential of plate I3i by a value which causes Lithis potential to maintain the electron beam Switch 53 is open.
  • the current contained in the beam is again split up in two branches: One portion flows through resistor I2, the remainder flows throughresistor 'II and through the other nine parallel branches of, the stabilizing potentiometers;
  • the value of resistor II is smaller than the value of resistor BI, and the value of resistor I2 is larger than the value of. resistor 02-, sothat a larger current will flow throughresistor II, than through resistor-"0
  • This increases the voltage drop across the combination of the remaining nine parallel branches of the stabilizing potentiometers, the grid of tube I4 becomes more negative, the anode current thereof and the voltage dropacross.
  • resistor 23 is reduced, plate I32 is driven more positive and the deflected electron beam is locked on anode I until arrival of another impulse.
  • Resistor 26 reduces the capacitive leakage path of the impulses arriving from diode I5.
  • the position of the deflected electron beam on the terminal anode is maintained in the above mentioned manner, there being a small time lag determined by the time constant of the above mentioned stabilizing circuits, i. e. by the product of the resultant resistance of these circuits and the. resultant capacity thereof.
  • the resultant capacity is the combination of the parasitic capacities of the components of said circuits.
  • the resultant resistances connected to each terminal anode respectively differ from each other due to the graded values of the stabilizing potentiometers. Since, however, the values of the stabilizing potentiometers are small compared with the plate resistances of tubes I3 and I4, and the parasitic capacities of the stabilizing circuits are approximately equal, the time constants of all stabilizing circuits are also approximately equal.
  • a small capacitor may be conveniently connected in parallel with resistor 23, the product of this capacity and the value of resistor 23 being larger than the time constants of the output circuits of the terminal anode. Still exacter equalization of the time constants of the stabilizing circuits is provided by arranging the time constants of the output circuits of all terminal anodes to have the same value. To this end, capacitors having small graded capacity values may be connected in parallel to portions of the stabilizing potentiometers, e. g. to resistors 02 and through 92.
  • The-wave form, duration and amplitude of the diiferentiated impulse depend on the time con-' stant of the differentiating circuit which is given by the product (3333.25 of the capacity of capacitor 33 and. the value of resistor 25.
  • the capacity of capacitor 33and the value. of resistor 25 are small. This enables the counting of impulses following each other in very quick succession and it makes possible equalization of the time constant of the:
  • the system provided for locking the beam on this anode comes into action.
  • the new position of the electron beam remains fixed if the dying out time of the diiferentiated impulse and increase time of the stabilizing voltages up to the maximum value complement each other to give a constant value.
  • Such conditions are approximately obtained if the time constant of the differentiating circuit equals the time constant of the stabilizing circuits. If there are small differences between these time constants, the deflected beam will be slightly shifted over the anode whilst being locked in the new position, without however completely dropping off the respective anode. Larger dimensions of the terminal anode admit larger differences between the time constants, requiring, however, a larger amplitude of the diiierentiated impulse for defleeting the beam from one anode to another.
  • This procedure is repeated upon arrival of the next impulse which deflects the beam upon the adjacent anode.
  • the sum of the two resistors in each parallel branch of the potentiometers is constant and the values of the resistors are graded, differing from each other by a constant value.
  • the values Rm, Rm of resistors nl, n2 connected to the nth anode where n: 9 are given by the following expressions:
  • R23 designates the value of resistor 23, g the slope of the linear portion of the grid characteristic, Bi the plate resistance of tube Hi, and
  • resistor 29 If resistor 29 is connected to the nth anode, the electron beam returns to the neutral anode, and an impulse will appear across terminals M, 43 after the electron beam has struck the nth anode. Means are thus provided for dividing the number of signals by any number from 2 through 10.
  • terminals 11, 68 are connected to further counting means which count tens; this may be followed by other counting means which count hundreds, etc.
  • the remaining ones, corresponding to the position of the beam on the respective anode can be determined, for example, by means of a current metering device connected in the anode circuit of tube it. The number of tens, hundreds, etc. is found in a similar way. Having regard to the maximum constants of the stabilizing circuits.
  • a suitable mechanical counting device may be connected after some of the counting stages.
  • An other alternative is to connect to resistor 23 of the device which counts ones, a system which deflects horizontally the electron beam of the indicator cathode ray tube. To resistor 23 of the same device which counts tens, a system is connected which deflects vertically the electron beam of said tube. The corresponding positions of the luminous trace of the beam can be provided with a numerical scale and two-digit results can be read 01f. The indicator tube can be switched over to any two counting devices for determining all decimal places.
  • Terminal 43 is fed with positive impulses and diode 15 passes positive difierentiated peaks produced from the wave fronts by the operation of circuit 25.
  • the grid of tube I4 is supplied with positive impulses which make plate Q32 more ne ative and deflect the beam in an upward direction.
  • the difierentiatin rectifier can also be connected in manners differing from the embodiment of Fig. l, for example by omitting resistor 24 and connecting the output of diode !5 to the grid of tube hi through a sufficiently sized capacitor, the connection between said capacitor and the anode of diode i5 being grounded through a resistor.
  • the stabilizing circuits adjust the potential of plate H32 in the above mentioned manner, so that the beam strikes anode I. If the impulse persists, the same additional negative voltage is supplied all the time, also in this position of the beam, to the grid of tube It through diode i5 and resistor 24, and further decrease of the current through tube l4 and resistor 23 makes plate Hi2 still more positive. The beam is shifted to anode 2, etc. Thus, while the impulse persists, the beam is cyclically deflected over the terminal anodes, a divisional pulse being passed through terminals 41, 48 to further counting means, each time the beam returns to anode 5.
  • the shifting movement of the beam is only stopped on termination of the impulse and the duration of the signal is determined from the product of the number of anodes struck by the beam and the time required for shifting the beam from one anode to the other.
  • the number of anodes struck by the beam is determined in a similar way as when counting signals.
  • the speed of the movement of the electron beam over the anodes is determined by the time In order to make the measurement accurate up to the last counted place, it is convenient if the time constants of the stabilizing circuits corresponding to all anodes are equalized to have the same value. Since the device according to the invention is without inertia, the duration of very short impulses can be measured in the above mentioned manner.
  • Pulse counting and duration measuring apparatus comprising, in combination, a cathode ray tube having a cathode, a plurality of serially arranged anodes, a first pair of deflector plates operable to shift the ray along said anodes and a second pair of deflector plates operable to shift the ray laterally of said anodes; a grid controlled valve; a source of potential; an impedance connected between said source and the anode of said valve, said first pair of plates being connected in shunt with said impedance so that the potential between said plates is a function of the impedance drop; the cathode of said tube being connected to the cathode of said valve; a feedback network operatively associated with said tube and including a plurality of voltage dividers connected in parallel between the grid and cathode ofsaid valve, each anode being individually connected to a tap on a different divider, the circuit constants of said network being so selected that, in any given position of the ray, the anode
  • Pulse counting and duration measuring apparatus comprising, in combination, a cathode ray tube having a cathode, a plurality of serially arranged anodes includin one terminal neutral anode and the other terminal anode having an extension laterally of the intermediate anodes and extending as a conductive path to adjacent the neutral electrode; a first pair of deflector plates operable to shift the ray along said anodes and a second pair of deflector plates operable to shift the ray laterally of said anodes; a grid controlled valve; a source of potential; an impedance connected between said source and the anode of said valve, said first pair of plates being connected in shunt with said impedance so that the potential between said plates is a function of the impedance drop; the cathode of said tube being connected to the cathode of said valve; a feedback network operatively associated with said tube and including a plurality of voltage dividers connected in parallel between the grid and cathode of said valves, the number of
  • said pulse differentiating network includes a capacitance and a diode rectifier in series with the valve cathode and a variable impedance in parallel with said rectifier.
  • said pulse difierentiating network includes a capacitance and a diode rectifier in series with the valve cathode and a variable impedance in parallel with said rectifier; and means selectively operable to shunt said capacitance to delete the pulse differentiating action.
  • Apparatus as claimed in claim 2 including a pair of output terminals capacitatively coupled across said second impedance.

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